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The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (Harvard University Press, 2015) Mandel, Maud S. Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict (Princeton University Press; 2014) 253 pages; scholarly history of conflicts since 1948; special attention to Marseilles and to the impact of French decolonization in North ...
The Hammer and the Crescent: Contacts between Andalusi Muslims, Franks, and their Successors in Three Waves of Muslim Expansion into Francia (PhD thesis). University of Pennsylvania. Watson, William E. (2003). "Three Legacies: Charles Martel, the Crusades, and Napoleon". Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World.
With about 1.8 billion followers (2015), almost a quarter of earth's population, [110] Islam is the second-largest and the fastest-growing religion in the world, [111] primarily due to the young age and high fertility rate of Muslims, [112] with Muslims having a rate of (3.1) compared to the world average of (2.5).
The study of the origins of the Palestinians, a population encompassing the Arab inhabitants of the former Mandatory Palestine and their descendants, [1] is a subject approached through an interdisciplinary lens, drawing from fields such as population genetics, demographic history, folklore, including oral traditions, linguistics, and other disciplines.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Druze Al-Muwaḥḥidūn الموحدون Druze star and Druze flag Total population ≈800,000 –2,000,000 Founder Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad Regions with significant populations Syria 600,000 Lebanon 250,000 [8] Israel and the Golan Heights 143,000 [9] Venezuela 60,000 [10] [11] United States ...
Various Muslim raids still reached the French coast, notably the islands of Lérins in 1003, 1047, 1107 and 1197. [10] The last Muslim incursion into Corsica (by the Emir Abu Hosein Mogehid) took place in 1014. The Caliphate of Cordoba broke up in 1031 into several small emirates, the taifas, which were completed by the Reconquista in 1492.
Alawites [b] are an Arab [18] [19] ethnoreligious group [20] who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism. [21] A sect of Islam that splintered from early Shia as a ghulat branch during the ninth century, [22] [23] [24] Alawites venerate Ali ibn Abi Talib, the "first Imam" in the Twelver school, as a manifestation of the divine essence.
Yohannes was known to harbor deep resentment towards Islam, a Sudanese official was reported stating "Yohannes is the most hateful of the Abyssinians towards Islam. Someone who knew him told me that if he saw a Muslim in the morning it would depress him so that he would immediately take the cross which he worships and put it over his face."